Welcome to the CHASS Data Centre

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This collection of on-line databases and custom built search and retrieval programs are maintained by Computing in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CHASS) at the University of Toronto.

CANSIM

The Canadian Socio-Economic Information Management System (CANSIM) is Statistics Canada's key socioeconomic database. Updated daily, CANSIM provides fast and easy access to a large range of the latest statistics available in Canada.
CANSIM comprises over 40 million time series and thousands of tables.

CFMRC/TSX Annual

Canadian Financial Markets Research Centre (CFMRC) summary information database (or CFMRC TSX database for short)
includes daily and monthly Toronto Stock Exchange trading information about specific securities as well as information on "price adjustments" such as dividends, stock splits, recapitalizations, etc. The database also includes daily and monthly indexes containing information on daily and monthly index levels as well as selected other financial markets information.

CFMRC/TSX highlights:

expanded daily data set includes opening as well as closing data for: prices; bids; asks; trades; and volumes, amongst other information

CFMRC/TSX Quarterly

Canadian Financial Markets Research Centre (CFMRC) summary information database (or CFMRC TSX database for short)
includes daily and monthly Toronto Stock Exchange trading information about specific securities as well as information on "price adjustments" such as dividends, stock splits, recapitalizations, etc. The database also includes daily and monthly indexes containing information on daily and monthly index levels as well as selected other financial markets information.

CFMRC/TSX highlights:

expanded daily data set includes opening as well as closing data for: prices; bids; asks; trades; and volumes, amongst other information

TSX eReviews

The TSX eReview and TSX Venture eReview are monthly PDF publications produced by TSX Datalinx, an operating group of TMX Group Inc.

Extensive and authoritative coverage of market, trading and corporate events for the Toronto Stock Exchange and TSX Venture Exchange are provided in the TSX eReview and TSX Venture eReview, respectively. Sourced and verified by the exchanges, the eReviews are excellent tools to keep you informed on trading and corporate information for Canada’s primary stock exchanges.

The TSX eReview provides extensive coverage of market, trading and corporate events for Toronto Stock Exchange listed companies through the following seven chapters:

Market highlights and statistics

Securities highlights

Stock list changes

Corporate actions

Terms and conditions

Trading information

Index information

TSX eReview prior issues available back to February 2005.

The TSX Venture eReview is a comprehensive monthly digest of trading activity and corporate information for companies listed on the TSX Venture Exchange (including NEX). Each issue has extensive coverage of market and corporate data, including:

Trading data

Market movers

Listings changes

Financings

Index information

TSX Venture eReview prior issues available back to July 2005.

TSX eReviews @ CHASS are updated monthly.

Access to TSX eReview is restricted to the following subscribers.
Access to TSX Venture eReview is restricted to the following subscribers.

D&B INKBR

The Dun & Bradstreet - Industry Norms & Key Business Ratios Database (INKBR) provides users with a set of business ratios, measured as relationships between companies' balance sheet and income statement categories, across industries classified as per Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes.

"Industry norms" is a concept of juxtaposing an individual company's balance sheet and income statement ratios against "norms" derived from the industry group (as per the SIC code) to which the company belongs.

D&B INKBR @ CHASS features:

Retrieve all three groups of key business ratios (14 ratios in total) for industries classified by SIC codes

Basic Economics

The Citicorp macroeconomic database Basic Economics formerly known as CITIBASE, provides annual, quarterly, and monthly data about economic activities in the United States. The database contains approximately 9,500 series about finance, industrial production, energy, productivity, prices, population and labor, and national income. It also includes various forecasts, population projections, and cyclical indicators.

The information available in this database includes, but is not limited to:

CRSP Database

CRSP Database provides access NYSE/AMEX/Nasdaq daily and monthly security prices and other historical data related to over 20,000 companies. The data is provided by the Center for Research in Security Prices, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago.

CRSP stock data includes data from NYSE, Amex, NASDAQ, and NYSE Arca stock exchanges. The following items are included in CRSP stock database:

Penn World Tables

The Penn World Table (PWT) displays a set of national accounts economic time series covering many countries. Its expenditure entries are denominated in a common set of prices in a common currency so that real quantity comparisons can be made, both between countries and over time. It also provides information about relative prices within and between countries, as well as demographic data and capital stock estimates.

CHASS is also hosting the historical Penn World Tables, Mark 5.6. This version includes the Summers/Heston macroeconomic data set covering 30 subjects for 152 countries. The data covers years 1950-1992.